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The brilliant and bestselling companion volume to Don Watson's Death Sentence The prime minister speaks of core and non-core election promises, your boss asks you to commit to an involuntary career event (you're fired), and hospitals refer to negative patient outcomes (you're dead) – How to fight back? This book is a heavy weapon against politicians, managers and all those whose words kill brain cells and sink hearts. Striking a much-needed blow for truth and clarity, here is Don Watson, author of the international bestseller Death Sentence , at his sobering, scathing and wickedly funny best.
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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Watson, Don
- Publisher
- Random House Australia Pty
- Published
- 2004
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781742744667
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Language
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